To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living.
Opportunity Quotes
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must equip people to walk through those doors.
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
